Ian Morgan

That is strange. Citroen don't often produce 'proper' cars. They usually have something weird and wonderful about them.

Basingstoke in March? Alton in February? Slough this coming weekend?

Oh dear, Set-Track curves and too many buildings too close to the tracks ...

My layout is loaded in the car ready for the morning 🙂 See you all there.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this exhibition is now split between two locations. Some of the layouts will be at the Slough Museum in the Slough Trading Estate as planned, while some layouts will now be located at the meeting place of the Slough & Windsor Railway Society, next to Slough station, called 'The Manor'.

You missed the robin sitting on a spade in one of the gardens

I can only imagine the Social Media Vloggers and certain newspaper journalists have been having wet dreams thinking up headlines in case the Luton Airport car park fire involved any EVs.

I did buy her a red and white stripey jumpsuit with numbers on, but she would never wear it 😜

One of them was my 5 foot measuring stick 😄

Some people just cannot cut in straight lines. The ground floor windows are all at different heights, and what a mess he made of the top left window ...

The backscene is so dramatic - a work of art in its own right.

... or it is a device to keep operators in check? 😏

I did once get to explore down the far end at Alresford, but no camera, and no idea of the year. There were a pair of wooden underframed wagons at the buffer stops that had been squashed beyond repair (I assume) by some rough shunting (again, I assume).

Back in 2004 this happened to a Renault on the French Autoroute. I think, if I remember correctly, the police cleared a ringway and let him go round and round on his own until it ran out of fuel. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6184673

Back when computer mice had wires

OK, it is N gauge, but for 10€ how does it look? https://www.dm-toys.de/en/product-details/DeAgostini_001.html I presume there will be more to come.

The VW dealers in Newbury and Basingstoke were very good at spoiling what should have been nice experience. I did not even look at VW EVs when the Ioniq lease was up.

I could not work out which thread to post this photo in. Should it be 'When the real thing looks like a model'? Or on the otherhand, should it be in the 'Realistic Modelling' thread? Perhaps it could go in a 'Prototype' thread? I don't know. Maybe this would help: Today at the Royal Victoria Country Park near Southampton.

Letraset is a thing of the past now, like calligraphy. Comedian Roy Hudd used to be a commercial artist, working under Harry Beck (creator of the London Underground Map) specialising in hand draughting text. When Letraset first appeared, Roy saw his job prospects vanishing and moved to making people laugh full time. Now, it is all done on computers. Have you seen the prices some people are asking for part-used sheets of Letraset on eBay?

Seagulls don't have spots ...

My 2018 Ioniq four year company lease was extended to four years and eight months because of extended lead times currently being experienced. During that time I covered about 50k miles. That is less than half the mileage of my previous four years because of Covid lockdown and more working from home since. The car was great, no noticeable degradation of battery performance, and a healthy 5+miles per kWh. The 120-140 mile range was adequate for the most part, and I could count the times I used public chargers on two hands. I now have an Ioniq 5 and have done about 2k miles in it already. The range seems to be just over 300 miles, and I am getting a little over 4 miles per kWh, which is pretty good these days with bigger, heavier batteries being fitted. All seems OK at the moment, but I do miss the lighting up door handles at night making the flush door handles hard to find.

Looking forward to models of babies in prams (ancient and modern), babies in slings, toddlers in pushchairs and strollers, baby on changing mat, toddler on dad's shoulders, etc. etc. 🙂

I have just completed the first four weeks' course of enzalutamide tablets. Just a few side effects so far, mostly the hot flushes, but last week my feet swelled up and were quite painful and itchy. I could only hobble around, so my lunchtime exercise walks had to be curtailed. Thankfully, my feet are almost back to normal now and I was able to attend the Spa Valley Railway Model Railway Event. Today I was back at the hospital for the next round of blood tests, and a chat with the oncologist. My veins have never been particularly forthcoming about giving up any blood, and my hands are now like pin cushions (they didn't even try my arms this time) but eventually they got enough for the tests. The oncologist was very pleased that my PSA had dropped from 7 to 1.3, but was unhappy about my water retention and blood pressure. She has halved the dose of enzalutamide for the next four weeks to try to balance out the good and bad effects. She clarified my understanding of the current treatment regime. Because the PET scan had found a small amount of cancer in the pelvic bone, it could only have been carried there in the blood stream. That means it could be carried elsewhere. The enzalutamide should kill off these small cancer cells anywhere in the body, while the hormone injections should stop the cancer in the prostate from growing. The radio-therapy to remove the cancer from the prostate will only be commenced when the rest of my body is clear. Another PET scan in five months time will determine if radio-therapy can commence, or if the current regime should continue for a further period. Again, I am no medical expert, but hopefully I am getting a better grasp of what is happening with my body.

Despite the narrow passages, uneven floor and leaky roof, this is the second time we have attended with different club layouts and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Happy to come again with another club layout, if invited.